What do you get when you leave an Instagram-loving politician alone with a recording device by his side? A gross home-made sex video that would surely have left a bitter taste in the mouth it was intended for.
But when you have dedicated almost your entire ministerial career to doing the Guptas one favour after another, nothing is beneath you.
To our readers, the disgraced Malusi Gigaba takes this year's coveted Mampara of the Year title.
With almost half of the votes, Gigabyte is the undisputed winner of our title.
He is trailed by another wrecking ball, former South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane - Hogarth's initial favourite for the title. A piece of work, this one. Moyane inherited a very healthy revenue service and by the time he was done with it, Sars was on its knees. Revenue collection was way below target, he hounded experienced tax practitioners out of Sars and staff morale was at an all-time low.
Another contender for the coveted title was EFF's rottweiler, Floyd "uBhuti ka Brian" Shivambu. If he is not strangling photojournalists outside parliament, he's helping his brother loot VBS bank, while pretending to be a champion of the poor in his red overalls.
Also in the running was our bumbling public protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who has dropped the ball so often that the courts have questioned her capacity to occupy her office. But only 9% of our readers thought she was worthy of the Mampara of the Year title.
Other runners-up include Adam Catzavelos, for his crude racist remarks on a Greek beach, Markus Jooste for presiding over the collapse of Steinhoff, tycoon Johann Rupert and disgraced former ANC MP and deputy education minister Mduduzi Manana.
To be fair to Gigabyte, though, things were not always this way. His was a promising political career. The only person to have served three terms as president of the ANC Youth League, one of the youngest members of the executive when former president Thabo Mbeki appointed him deputy minister of home affairs, and a star that shone so brightly at some point that few would have argued with those touting him as future president of the ANC and the country.
But the quest for instant fame and the need to please the greedy paymasters of a compromised leader are a lethal combination. ANC stalwart Barbara Hogan told the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture how former president Jacob Zuma refused to endorse any of her recommendations to serve on the boards of state-owned companies when she was public enterprises minister.
Viewed as a hindrance to the state capture project, out went Hogan and in came Gigabyte to smooth the way. Before long, the boards of key state-owned entities - Transnet, Eskom, SAA and Denel - were populated by Gupta acolytes who enabled the looting of billions from these companies, leading to their near collapse.
But our man wasn't done. At home affairs, he was on hand to fast-track the naturalisation of the Guptas, speeding up their application for citizenship. He was the G-brothers' ace, firm in their back pocket, and they played the card at every turn.
After the failed weekend experiment with Des van Rooyen at National Treasury, it would take a bit of time to boot out the obstacle that was Pravin Gordhan - before the looting project resumed under Gigabyte.
Thankfully for all of us, the ANC elective conference was around the corner and the looting faction got a bloody nose. That surely saved us from the possible damage that our man, now finance minister, would have inflicted on the national kitty in service of Zuma and the Guptas.
It's not surprising that Gigabyte came out tops, given the year he's had. Being demoted from finance, he was sent back to home affairs to fix the mess he left there - and boy, did it need fixing. In the end, he was exposed as a liar, first by parliament for his role in the naturalisation of the Guptas, and later by the courts, which found he lied about approving a private terminal for the Oppenheimer family at OR Tambo International Airport.
Mamaparagaba was left exposed, and the nation was left unimpressed. Good riddance - for now. But we know that, given the ANC's history of resuscitating disgraced cadres, we might not have seen the last of him...